Health

Image copyright Asthma UKImage caption Oscar has been in hospital 57 times with his asthma Five-year-old Oscar’s life has regularly hung in the balance because of severe asthma. On his second birthday, he was so ill he did not respond to any medicines, leaving his parents fearing the worst. “I will never forget how his […]

Image caption Jenny Lees has haemochromatosis and believes her mother, sister and son died from the condition A “stealth disease” which can cause liver failure, diabetes and severe arthritis may be much more common than previously thought, research has shown. Genetic disorder Haemochromatosis causes the body to absorb too much iron from food and can […]

Image copyright TEENAGE CANCER TRUSTImage caption Aggie is now working as a management consultant five years on from her cancer diagnosis Survival rates for teenagers and young adults with cancer in England are improving, particularly for those with leukaemia and bone cancer, says a report by Teenage Cancer Trust and Public Health England. But it […]

Image copyright Getty Images A diet has been developed that promises to save lives, feed 10 billion people and all without causing catastrophic damage to the planet. Scientists have been trying to figure out how we are going to feed billions more people in the decades to come. Their answer – “the planetary health diet” […]

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionMerthyr has the worst child obesity problem but this Cardiff City football programme is encouraging activity Obesity is overtaking smoking as the biggest risk to health in Wales, experts have warned. The “stark” problem with overweight children could also mean this generation will not live as long […]

Former Liverpool keeper Loris Karius sustained a concussion in the 2018 Champions League final Premier League footballers are taking part in a “ground-breaking” new concussion study this season that could lead to pitch-side diagnosis. The study includes saliva and urine samples being taken from players with head injuries and uninjured ‘control’ players by club doctors […]

Image copyright David NasrallaImage caption The normothermic perfusion machine pumps oxygenated blood and nutrients into livers outside the body A new procedure for storing livers donated for transplant has been hailed a “game changer” and approved for use on the NHS. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) say perfusion machines could increase […]

Image copyright Getty Images Contact lens wearers will be able to recycle their lenses for free in a new UK-wide scheme launching this week. Wearers can dispose of their waste at public drop-off points, offered by Boots Opticians and other selected independent stores, or choose to have their old lenses collected. There are 3.7 million […]

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption‘I carry my heart in a rucksack’ A woman who carries an artificial heart in a rucksack after her own organ was removed because of cancer has been added to the transplant list. Becca Henderson, 24, has been given the green light to receive a donor heart […]

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionJessica Jones was told her daughter Aurelia had just 5% chance of surviving when she was born A couple is trying to get their baby back to Wales from Vietnam after she was born almost three months early. Jessica Jones and Alfredo Duenas’s daughter Aurelia was born […]

Image copyright Getty Images Experts have developed a potentially “game-changing” test to predict a woman’s risk of breast cancer. It combines information on family history and hundreds of genetic markers with other factors, such as weight, to give the most comprehensive assessment possible, says Cancer Research UK. The test is not yet routinely available on […]

Image copyright Getty Images Having sex too soon is the biggest regret of young people losing their virginity, a survey of British sexual behaviour suggests. More than a third of women and a quarter of men in their teens and early 20s admitted it had not been “the right time” when they first had sex. […]